I think Neolithic people had hierarchies too, it's just hard to find evidence of them before metalworking. There just wasn't that much cool stuff for the top dogs to hoard.
A prehistoric site in Egypt was excavated, over 10K years old, many thousands of arrow- and spear heads all over, the remains of a massive attack of stone age firepower. Something was going on.
22 posted on 04/22/2011 9:18:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)